(O heaven! what flash and started endless train of all! comparedindeed to that!
What wretched shred e’en at the best of all!)
An Evening Lull
After a week of physical anguish,
Unrest and pain, and feverish heat,
Toward the ending day a calm and lull comes on,
Three hours of peace and soothing rest of brain.
Old Age’s Lambent Peaks
The touch of flame — the illuminating fire — the loftiest look at last,
O’er city, passion, sea — o’er prairie, mountain, wood — the earth itself,
The airy, different, changing hues of all, in failing twilight,
Objects and groups, bearings, faces, reminiscences;
The calmer sight — the golden setting, clear and broad:
So much i’ the atmosphere, the points of view, the situations whence
we scan,
Bro’t out by them alone — so much (perhaps the best) unreck’d before;
The lights indeed from them — old age’s lambent peaks.
After the Supper and Talk
After the supper and talk — after the day is done,
As a friend from friends his final withdrawal prolonging,
Good-bye and Good-bye with emotional lips repeating,
(So hard for his hand to release those hands — no more will they meet,
No more for communion of sorrow and joy, of old and young,
A far-stretching journey awaits him, to return no more,)
Shunning, postponing severance — seeking to ward off the last word
ever so little,
E’en at the exit-door turning — charges superfluous calling back —
e’en as he descends the steps,
Something to eke out a minute additional — shadows of nightfall deepening,
Farewells, messages lessening — dimmer the forthgoer’s visage and form,
Soon to be lost for aye in the darkness — loth, O so loth to depart!
Garrulous to the very last.
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